was a Japanese
entomologist
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who specialised in
Lepidoptera
Lepidoptera ( ) is an order (biology), order of insects that includes butterfly, butterflies and moths (both are called lepidopterans). About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera are described, in 126 Family (biology), families and 46 Taxonomic r ...
.
He wrote ''Butterflies of
Formosa
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in Colour'' Osaka, Hoikusha (1960), ''Early Stages of Japanese Butterflies in Colour'' Hoikusha (with Akira Hara, 1960) and ''Butterflies of Japan Illustrated in Colour'' Tokyo, Hokuryu-kan (1964) all of which took advantage of Japanese advanced (
optical) and
colour printing technologies.
He also published many scientific papers describing new species of butterflies.
Dr. Takashi Shirozu was a
professor emeritus of
Kyushu University and president emeritus of The Lepidopterological Society of Japan.
References
*2004
Obituary Takashi Shirôzu (1917-2004). ''Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan'' 55(3) 133, including a portrait.
Japanese lepidopterists
Japanese entomologists
1917 births
2004 deaths
Academic staff of Kyushu University
University of Miyazaki alumni
20th-century Japanese zoologists
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